••• “The fences will come down and the airport-like security screening will end next year, allowing free access to the World Trade Center site’s eight-acre 9/11 Memorial Plaza. That’s what Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, says. […] The museum is expected to open sometime next spring, but a date is yet to be set.” How long till the NYPD says the security screening isn’t ending anytime soon?…. —Tribeca Trib

••• Marc Forgione’s Laotian restaurant, Khe-Yo, opens July 22. —Time Out (photo by Jessica Lin, courtesy Time Out)

••• Nine Frenchmen working on a 19th-century carousel for Governors Island—it opens Saturday as part of something called Fête Paradiso—have been “bunking together in rented apartments in Tribeca and the East Village.” —The New York Times

••• Franklin Place (the condo, not the street) is said to be “more than 80 percent sold, with 44 of the 53 units gone.” —Curbed

••• The Broadsheet looks at the history of Collect Pond.

••• A video of FiDi street style. I didn’t watch it (the kids at the start were too much), so no clue what’s in it. —Refinery29 (via Racked)

••• “Last night, SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Workshop returned to the Parks subcommittee of Community Board 3 to present the updated schematics for ‘Package 4’ of the East River esplanade. The team had first presented their vision exactly one year ago, so this session was meant to gather additional feedback within a 45-day grace period before heading to City Planning for final approval. Package 4 encompasses the East River coastline running between Catherine and Pike Slip.” —Bowery Boogie (via Curbed)

••• The 7-Eleven on John opened yesterday. —Downtown Lunch

••• Can we just talk for a second about how desperate the Daily News has gotten?